Black Friday: A History in 115 seconds...

Nov 27, 2014, 05:06 PM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, November 2014)

RETAILERS across Staffordshire and Cheshire are expecting a surge of business on what's dubbed 'Black Friday.'

It's a tradition from the United States -- but in the last couple of years its popularity has grown in the UK.

So how did it arrive on our shores?

EMMA THOMAS can explain...